On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Fine with me, altough if both are acceptable, then there is no reason a > package maintainer (or an upstream) may not decide to move the META file > there by default. Ok > In fact i don't understand what is the reasoning behind not choosing to > use a single directory only for debian package (and write it in the > policy) even if findlib does also accept META files in stdlib subdirs > for backward compatibility reasons. Because is additional work imposed to maintainers with no real usefulness. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy zack@{cs.unibo.it,debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! " -- G.Romney
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